[dba-Tech] Fake Duplex Printing

Gary's right, the papers thickness tends to change after going through the
printer once.  This is especially true of laser printers.  I suppose an
option, if the document is important would be to take it to Kinko's or
similar and have them print it.


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:

> And good luck not getting a misfeed when you print the second sides...... I
> often have that happen as the paper doesn't feed nearly as smoothly the
> second time through and tends to want to double feed 2 pages which then
> messes up all the subsequent pages after that so you have to start over
> with the front sides. Heavy sigh.... I'm using a ink jet of course and will
> usually hand feed the second sides one page at a time so as to guard
> against that. Well after it happens as described the first time so I wasted
> paper and more importantly ink.
>
> GK
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:06 AM, DJK (John) Robinson <djkr at msn.com>
> wrote:
>
> > In case that doesn't work (and anything purporting to be a word processor
> > *must* have such a basic facility!) -
> >
> > Either (a) export the document to Word and print from there [ducks the
> > bricks being thrown] ...
> >
> > Or (b) 'print' to a pdf file and use Adobe Reader.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:
> > dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hartland
> > Sent: 12 March 2014 15:47
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Fake Duplex Printing
> >
> >
> > Arthur,
> >
> > Now I haven't tried this, but heard that this may work:
> >
> > 1.  Open the document.
> > 2.  File/Print, should show you a form with tabs general, openoffice
> > writer, page layout & options. 3.  Select tab Page
> > Layout and you should see a section called page sides with a drop-down,
> > here you can choose front or back sides, choose
> > one, print, choose the other and print.
> >
> > Apparently this should work, may be worth giving it a little try on a
> > smaller test document first, would of tried myself
> > but do not have any ink in my printer.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > On 12 March 2014 15:34, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In the absence of a duplex printer, what's the simplest way to print a
> > > 50-page document from OpenOffice? IOW, my friend wants to print the
> > > odd-numbered pages first, then flip the pages and re-insert them, and
> > > print the even-numbered pages.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Arthur
> >
>
> --
> Gary Kjos
> garykjos at gmail.com
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